Andrew Vachss

When his girlfriend, Crystal Beth, is gunned down at a gay rights rally in Central Park, Burke, the underground man-for-hire and expert hunter of predators, vows vengeance....

With the Prof clinging to life in an underground hospital facility, a man named Pryce shows up to make Burke an offer....

Vachss has reinvented detective fiction and, in the person of Burke, his haunted, hell-ridden P.I., has given listeners a new kind of hero....

In Burke, Andrew Vachss gave readers of crime fiction a hero they could believe in, an avenger whose sense of justice was forged behind bars and tempered on New York’s meanest streets....

Burke is given a purse full of dirty money to find the infamous Ghost Van that is cutting a lethal swath among teenage prostitutes....

A pulse-quickening new crime novel featuring Burke, ex-con, private investigator, and rumored hit man....

Andrew Vachss’s implacable private eye has a new client, Strega. She wants Burke to find an obscene photograph and that search will take him into the ocean that flows just beneath the city....

Burke's newest client is a woman named Flood, who has the face of an angel, the body of a high-priced stripper, and the skills of a professional executioner....

In this mercilessly compelling thriller, Burke — the private eye, sting artist, and occasional hit man who metes out a cruelly ingenious vengeance on those who victimize children .....

What — or who — could turn a gifted little boy into a murderous thing that calls itself "Satan’s Child"....

Career criminal Burke’s skill at working the feathery edges of the law are legendary, and this isn’t the first time he’s been hired to trade cash for an abducted kid....

Eddie starts stealing cars long before he's old enough to get a license. Driven by a force so compelling that he never questions, just obeys...

Undercurrents rise to the surface as Dell employs his mercenary soldier skills to follow the trail of a man who unwisely threatened his beloved wife, Dolly....

It’s been years since Burke has been home, years since he’s seen his “family” and worked in the underbelly of New York City.....

For years Burke has harbored an outlaw's hard love for Wolfe, the beautiful, driven former sex-crimes prosecutor who was fired for refusing to "go along to get along...."

Burke finds himself working the other side of the street, where guilt and innocence are as disposable as the sheets in a Times Square hotel....

The former shot-caller of the country's most feared white supremacist prison gang contacts Burke....

Ho was a revered sensei, but when his dismissive arrogance caused the death of a beloved student, he renounced not only his possessions but also his role as master....

For all secrets created, a tiny percentage is kept against any intrusion. The ultimate extractor of such secrets is the Questioner - a man who has trained himself to become empty, to sense what others need to hear, to respond in ways that lead them to reveal their most protected thoughts....

Burke is back, but still lurking in the shadows, unable to return home....